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Building an infrastructure to support real-time OLAP

Users love the flexible analytics offered by OLAP cubes but they hate to wait for the data to be loaded into a traditional data warehouse. John will describe how to build an infrastructure to support real-time loading of your OLAP cubes so your user's get exactly what they want NOW.

John will present a variety of approaches, highlight some of the pitfalls and provide tips and tricks.

John is an independent consultant with extensive experience of implementing Business Intelligence solutions on the Microsoft platform across a wide range of industries including financial services and professional services organisations.

John designs and builds solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server / SSAS / SSRS / SSIS delivered to the end-user through SharePoint portals.

John's key skills are in systems integration, bringing together disparate components and getting them working in a coherent fashion.

Specialties: Design and development of business intelligence, data warehouse and reporting systems based on OLAP technologies delivered to the end-user via SharePoint.